garlicmonger
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]garlicmonger (plural garlicmongers)
- (historical) A seller of garlic.
- 2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood:
- […] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.
- 2018, Jon Stobart, Vicki Howard, The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing:
- In the real world a network of middlemen handled goods of all kind: even in the apparently simple world of horticulture leekmongers and garlicmongers bought up sacks of vegetables and passed them on to retailers.